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A. L. JENKINS.

PRESS. APPLICATION FILED BBQ. 10, 1908.

Patented Jan. 31, 1911.

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.ATWOOD L. JENKINS, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNEASSIGNMENTS, TO SINGLE SERVICE PACKAGE CORPORATION OF AMERICA, ACORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

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likely to spring out of true form and forthatreason to be crushed whenit is attempted to force a closure or cap into place. This evil iseliminated by pressing the bottle into a conical or otherwise convergingpassage which accurately forms and holds it in exact position while theclosure is put in place. I also provide a printing device arranged to bemoved into and out of printing contact, at proper times by the movementof other members of the press.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front view of a press provided with myprinting de vices. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same apparatus. Fig. 8is a plan view of a portion of the printing mechanism.

In these drawings, 1 designates a press frame provided with a table andcarrying, above a table, a power driven crank-shaft 2 which actuates atubular head 8 working in ways in the frame and bearing an annularcutting plunger 20, and also actuates a forming and inserting plunger 21concentric with and reciprocating within the cutting plunger. Below andin line with the plungers 20, 21 is a reciprocating bottle elevatingdevice 12 operated by a centrally pivoted lever 13 to the outer end ofwhich is attached a rod 14 sliding in ways in the frame and normallyhaving its upper end in the path of the head 8 so that as the headdescends the lever is tilted raising the member 12. Bottles 5 are placedupon this member by hand or otherwise, for example, by an intermittentlymoving chain of plates 22 traveling across the table above the member 12and each bearing a curved lateral support 23 for bottles. The plungerscoact, respectively, with a cutting die 2 1 and a forming die 4 shown inthis instanceas made up of two superposed plates oppositely beveledoutwardly from the opening, all supported, at a little more than abottles height above the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 10, 1908.

Patented Jan. 31, 1911.

Serial No. 486,924.

table, by rigid members a. Two equal parallel arms 6, 6 are pivoted attheir upper ends near the top of the frame and at their lower ends arepivotally attached to a frame 8 which revolubly supports in verticalposition a printing roller 9 and a smaller inking roller 10, theproportions and arrangements being such that as the arms swing abouttheir upper pivots when a bottle is in place below the plungers, theprinting roller impinges upon and imprints the bottle to which it isparallel. Such swinging of the arms is effected by a rigid arm 24:projecting laterally from one arm and connected by a link 7 with thehead 3. Obviously, as the head descends the arms carry the rollers pastthe bottle and as it ascends they restore the frame to initial position.

In order that the bottle shall properly resist the lateral pressure ofthe printing roller it is necessary that its upper as well as its lowerportion should be supported, and the timing of the mechanism is suchthat the bottle is raised into the conical forming die and thus securelyheld during the printing. It is also obvious that as such raising iseffected by the descent of the cutting plunger during the nearlysimultaneous descent of the forming plunger also, the same opera tionserves the second purpose of accurately centering the bottle andpressing its mouth into true form for receiving the closure.

What I claim as my invention and desire to protect by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is:

1. The combination with reciprocating closure cutting and insertingplungers, of fixed dies co-acting with the plungers, respectively, andprovided below with devices to receive and hold in position and form theopen end of a bottle pressed into the same, a bottle support aliningwith the plungers, and means actuated by the movement of one of theplungers to raise a bottle thereon into engagement with said devices.

2. In a press of the class described, the combination with areciprocating closure i11- serting device, of a carrier for bringingcylindrical receptacles successively to rest in alinement with saiddevice, means for centering and accurately holding the receptacle duringthe insertion of a closure, and a printing device arranged to swing in aplane tangent to the receptacle to print thereon while it is thus held.

3. The combination with means for sup porting an open bottle, of devicesfor form ing and inserting a closure, and a printing device actuated bythe movement of said devices for printing upon the bottle so supported.

l. The combination with bottle supporting devices, of means for formingand inserting a closure in a bottle supported by said devices, aprinting device arranged toswing past the place of a bottle so supportedto print upon the same, and means whereby the printing device is soswung by the advancing movement of the forming and inserting means.

5. The combination with a press adapted to support a bottle and toinsert a closure ATlVOOD L. JENKINS.

Witnesses M. H. DILLON, H. G. NEDELL,

